On April 15, 1920, Frderick Albert Parmenter, paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, payroll guard, were fired upon and killed at South Braintree, Massachusetts. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged on May 5, 1920, with the crime of the murders, were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put on trial from May 31 to July 14, 1921, in the Superior court at Dedham, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, Judge Webster Thayer presiding. A verict of guilty was rendered but sentence was not pronounced until April 9, 1927.